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POPULAR MORALITY IN THE EARLY

ROMAN EMPIRE

Morality is one of the fundamental structures of any society, enabling

complex groups to form, negotiate their internal differences and per-

sist through time. In the ﬁrst book-length study of Roman popular

morality, Dr Morgan argues that we can recover much of the moral

thinking of people up and down the Empire. Her study draws on

proverbs, fables, exemplary stories and gnomic quotations to explore

how morality worked as a system for Roman society as a whole and

in individual lives. It analyses the content of sayings and stories to

show which ideas and practices were central to Roman morality,

which peripheral, which widely accepted or contested. It explores the

wide range of authorities (natural and socially constructed, absolute

and negotiable) which were invoked in support of moral ideas and

actions, and shows how different ethics appealed to different author-

ities. It traces the relationship between popular morality, high philos-

ophy, and the ethical vocabulary of documents and inscriptions. The

Roman Empire incorporated numerous overlapping groups, whose

ideas varied according to social status, geography, gender and many

other factors. Nevertheless it could and did hold together as an eth-

ical community, which was a signiﬁcant factor in its socio-political

success.

TERESA MORGAN is University Lecturer in Ancient History at

Oxford and a Fellow of Oriel College. She is the author of Literate

Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds (1998).

POPULAR MORALITY IN

THE EARLY ROMAN

EMPIRE

TERESA MORGAN

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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First published 2007

A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data

Morgan, Teresa, 1968–

Popular morality in the early Roman Empire / Teresa Morgan.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-521-87553-0 (hardback)

ISBN-10: 0-521-87553-6 (hardback)

1. Ethics–Rome. 2. Rome–Moral conditions. 3. Philosophy, Ancient.

4. Rome–History–Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D. I. Title.

BJ221.M67 2007

170.937–dc22

ISBN 978-0-521-87553-0 hardback

Transferred to digital printing 2009

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In Memoriam

Madge Jones (1909–2004)

Florence Kendall (1912–1990)

Harry Kendall (1912–1986)

Kathleen Morgan (1915–1997)

Donald Watson (1910–2005)

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